Eyes--the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On... sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is n...o danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like... dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralyti...c polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be ind...ulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the "higher life."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "charac...ter issues." Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »